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How To: Freestyle rap using three simple rules

This is a video teaching how to freestyle rap using three rules. The first rule is to freestyle all the time. Freestyle by yourself. Listen to some beats by yourself in your room with the first thing that comes into your mind. The second thing is to make sure it flows. Do not stutter. Keep practicing until it comes out smoothly. The third rule is do not stop rapping. In other words, don't take breaks for weeks or months otherwise you will get rusty. It will take time to get good at it again i...

How To: Sing high notes and use your head voice

This video will show you what your head voice is and how to sing high notes. Your head voice is a higher range than your normal chest voice, which can only go a certain range. Your head voice is the voice that occurs when your singing and vibration of your vocal chords is felt higher up than your chest, in your head area. This tutorial will show you how you can find this head voice and demonstrates a good method for exercising your voice so that you will be able to more efficiently sing highe...

How To: Sing an easy high note

Aspiring singers can learn how to sing high notes with vocal coach Robert Burnley. When you attain an extended range, your vocal chords will stay in place and then your chords will thin, shorten, or dampen allowing you to reach higher notes. This is what occurs physically when you are reaching higher notes. The key is to have the mentality that you are allowing your vocal chords to get thinner or shorter to reach those higher notes. Part of the struggle is not having the right mindset that yo...

How To: Sing high notes for men

The focus of this video is on singing high notes for men. The first step is to identify which mode your high note are sung in: classical, contemporary, or falsetto. For most men around the E flat note of the range determines which of these three routes is natural to the singer. For classical singers there is a distinct throttling around this pitch change into higher notes, a region known as the passagio. Contemporary singers have a more gradually ramping up as they pass over this transition o...

How To: Extend your upper range while singing

In this video, Kevin Richards teaches us some vocal exercises and how to expand the upper range of the head register voice for singing. The exercise, a "reverse octave", involves starting at a high note (in the head register) with a "He" sound, and singing down an octave to end up with a "Ya" sound. The purpose of this is that making the "h" sound in "He" works the diaphragm. Richards will explain this and demonstrate it in the video. After learning how to do the exercise, you will learn help...

How To: Hit the high notes

Want to break some glass? If you don’t quite have the vocal range you’re hoping for you can try holding a heavy object while singing. This should get you to tighten your throat and vocal cords which will produce a higher pitch sound.

How To: Beatbox the inward key snare with Stitch

Stitch shows how to do the inward keh snare and its advantages over outward keh. Put the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Breathe in through the sides of your tongue for a "Darth Vader"-like sound. Forget steps 1 and 2 for a while. Say a "k" with the back of your throat while breathing in. Combine all three steps together. Advantages of inward keh over outward keh. Inward keh sounds nicer than outward keh. Inward keh is much louder than the outward keh. Inward keh allows you to b...

How To: Sing scales

The Erick Dillard Vocal Clinic gives you vocal lessons in this video. Using a variety of scales, this tutorial will give you a range of different notes that will strengthen your vocals, and enhance your singing. You will start with the more simple exercises, and gradually build up to the more difficult exercises. Accuracy and training your ear is explained. This is a nice tutorial to help you with your singing skills, and it beats having to pay for singing lessons.

How To: Sing better by controlling your amp

This is a great instructional video on how to sing better by controlling your amp. Some secret tips for your singing voice are given in this video. You can try them on a "trouble section" of your favorite song and check how fast you improve! Jill Jaxx, teacher and performer, teaches you the voice culture so easily that you can improve your singing at once. She tells you how to make quick fixes for your voice and learn to sing better fast.

How To: Sing better by improving your technique

This video describes how to improve your singing technique which is useful for singers, orators and anyone who would like a better sounding voice. In this video one will learn that there are six muscles involved in singing and that there are exercises to improve their function which in turn improves one's singing voice. For example in the first exercise one learns the importance of the cheek muscles and how they can hamper one's voice if they are not moving correctly. Overall this video is in...

How To: Breathe correctly when singing

Breathing Challenges with Erik Dillard and Athan Datu is the name of this video and they will show you the correct way to breathe as you sing. Breathing is everything and the shown "S‚" drill helps you to learn how to exhale the right way. Tips like using a stop watch to help time and how to soften the "S‚" to get more out of your breathing will soon have you being able to exhale much longer and have much more control, which is necessary for singing.

How To: Scream (sing)

This video gives you instructions on how to scream. All singers want to develop a scream. Don't try to imitate anyone else's scream. Yours will be unique and belong to only you. Never scream from the throat. This can damage your throat and probably your vocal chords. Push the scream from the diaphragm and abdomen. The demonstrator suggests the feeling is like you push when you are constipated and trying to have a bowel movement. The pushing sensation is also like doing a sit-up. By pushing it...

How To: Perform an outward scream

This how to video teaches techniques for doing a outward scream without hurting your voice. This tutorial goes over proper breathing and vocal techniques for heavy metal or thrash metal vocals. Follow the steps for this growl like sound and you'll be singing in a metal band in no time.

How To: Scream for metal and rock vocals

Any classically trained vocalist would advise you not to EVER scream during a song. That's because any kind of screaming harms your vocal chords and could lead to a raspy, damaged voice later on in life. However, as many rock and hard metal songs require wailing of some sort, this video will teach you how to scream should you need to.

How To: Scream for heavy metal rock

This is a video series of a heavy metal screaming lesson. The basics are explained and then you learn how to scream properly without hurting yourself. Learn how to breathe, exercise and stretch, scream when speaking, how to actually scream, and finally finding your pitch.

How To: Warm up you singing voice

This exercise is an M hum vocal warm up. Squeeze your cheeks together, focus on an open throat and relaxed jaw with an open mouth. Sing through your basic warm up exercises. A great way to develop your vocal tone and warm up.

News: Human Beatbox like Doug E Fresh

There are very few legends in this world. When it comes to beatboxing, Doug E Fresh is the O.G. legend. Below is an old school video of Fresh with Slick Rick performing 'La Di Da Di' in New York. At 3:52 Fresh goes off the hook, so be patient. There are very few legends in this world.

How To: Learn to whistle

You'll never have to hum along to your favorite tune again. With a little practice, you'll be whistling in no time! Watch this video to learn how to learn to whistle.

How To: Improve a nasal singing voice

This how to video shows you what causes a nasal voice and how you can improve your singing with these voice tips. A nasal singing voice often produces an undesirable sound. These tips can help you produce a more beautiful tone. Watch this tutorial and you will be able to sing beautifully with these tips.

How To: Beatbox the multi-tone Didjeredoo throat technique

Check out this instructional beatboxing video that shows you how to do the mutli-tone Didjeredoo or Tuvan throat technique. This is a Low Throat oscillation that is used to mimic the Didjeredoo and also Tuvan Throat singing, as well as the fact that it's just an awesome noise to make. Be careful not to put too much pressure as to harm your vocal chords. Practice the multi-tone Didjeredoo throat technique to be able to throw it into a beatbox mix.

How To: Do the tag yodel

Watch this voice tutorial video to learn how to do tag yodeling. The key to yodeling is practice and repetition. This yodeling how-to video is for beginning yodelers but not first=time yodelers. The words for this tag yodel are: